Apologies
for the poor quality photo - my phone's camera is nothing fancy. But this is Loki - a
sorta-rescue I've had for about a year, who I don't generally bomb the
internet with pictures of, because you're going to hear enough about him
if you talk to me in person. But here's the deal - he's plenty
affectionate, but the little [big] dude is not a lap cat, and his
personality honestly leans closer to mine than I'd like to admit sometimes, meaning he's kind of self-interested little ass, even for a cat, and I kind of dig that about him.

Anyway, story time. I've suffered from panic attacks for a good [right]
long time, and though medication has pretty much knocked them out of
me, one still manages to sneak through and ruin a night or two here and
there every now and then. And look, I am not one of those "healing
powers of animals" types - I'm not going to profess swimming with
dolphins cures cancer, or having a dog is going to make you not want to
kill yourself. And I'm under no delusions that as much affection Loki
and I show each other on a regular basis, he'd eat my eyeballs if I died
in my sleep [which I am strangely ok with].

But last night,
when my mind was racing and my skin was crawling and my bones were
burning, Loki curled up in my lap without a single prompt and sat there
until all the fear and loathing abated. No clue how he knew, not all
that interested in questioning it.

Just a reminder - if you can
take in an unwanted pet, you should. You don't need to start with them
as infants or kittens or whatever to make a worthwhile connection.

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Writer. Critic. Ordained Minister. What appears in this blog is some strange combination of a production diary for the writing I do, various fiction I want to share, and a chronicle of my mental health, which might need closer watching than I've let on. You're welcome to read along, if self- depreciating and masturbatory rants interest you. Or if I do. Maybe one day this will be a short book, or a long eulogy.

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